Guild Wars 2

I played about a year and a half ago and had two level 80 characters, I’ve recently started playing again now that I was able to purchase HoT ankitten ow looking for guilds to join. What am I looking for?

-Good activity during Oceanic hours.
-A guild that does planned, organized things, and does achievement hunting and such, while also being a social guild.
-Preferably a guild that has a decent amount of people who watch anime, for the social side of things.
-A guild that isn’t strict on banter, though this isn’t necessary.

Anyone part of a guild that roughly fits these, or know of one?

I just bought the game, and made my character an Engineer thinking that I’d enjoy using the turret skills, but so far have not found them useful. I’m almost level 40, and it feels like the only way to use turrets is to place them and detonate them when the overcharge is done. I feel pretty squishy, but at the same time also feel pretty weak, both in PvE and PvP.

Are turrets just not viable now? What should I do to either give myself better sustain/healing or higher DPS?

I had two level 80 characters on an old account about a year and a half ago, but abandon that one as I hated the account name and it was a f2p account, so I didn’t really lose anything, so I don’t think it’s too much to do with game knowledge or not being used to playing GW2.